Norwegian Erling Haaland, the Manchester City striker, unknowingly caused a disturbing crisis in one of the tourist areas in Sweden.

And the British newspaper "mirror" reported that a misspelling of Halland's name caused great confusion on social networking sites, and confused him with the name of a Swedish tourist area, famous for its picturesque beaches.

The journalist explained that when conducting a search for the region of Halland, located on the Swedish coast, thousands of pictures of football player and "Citizens" striker Erling Haaland appeared.

Halland causes a crisis for a tourist product

This prompted Jimmy Sandberg, the manager of the resort "Visit Halland", to send a general message, asking Britons, journalists and football fans to check the spelling accuracy, before searching for any information on the Internet.

"We write the name of our city like this (Haaland), and he (meaning the player) is written like this (Haaland)," Sandberg said.

He added angrily: "The mass and overwhelming popularity of the game of football is causing us to tighten the noose on the Internet."

🚨 Jimmy Sandberg, tourism chief for Visit Halland (area in Sweden)

🎙️Dear football fans.

We have a problem.

Erling Haaland's popularity, and a spelling error, is drowning out our beloved Swedish region of Haland.

So please, #Haaland fans: give us our hashtag back

😂#MCFC

— Gabriel (@Doozy_45) November 2, 2022

"What frustrates us is that we see that all our efforts to market and promote our city go to waste quite easily," Sandberg explained.

"If this is not addressed, we fear that our area will be at risk of being marginalized, forgotten, or remembered as a place in old stories and books," the resort manager concluded.

According to "Mirror", the tourist area (Haaland), with a population of more than 300 thousand people, suffers in every sense of the word, because of that misspelling, which clearly affects the tourism file in it.

And the newspaper highlighted other statements by Sandberg, in which he said: "When you write (Halland) in order to search for our beautiful city, it does not appear to you, and you find something else in its place."

He added, "Since Haaland arrived at Manchester City and scored all those goals, we were shocked by his presence in our tag and in all search engines."

He continued: "However, we wish he would come to visit us, many Norwegians come to us every year, and they feel at home," before Sandberg joked: "See you next summer in Haaland, Haaland?"

Since his official arrival to Manchester City on July 9, 2022, from Borussia Dortmund, Haaland has scored 22 goals in 16 matches in all competitions, including 17 goals in 11 Premier League matches.